Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

Many sacred souls but same Spirit.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

There is no shame in scars, Ismae.